Sentences with phrase «form of favor»
Reality is that reviews are often a form of favor to authors, especially independent authors.
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«Nonetheless, as noted above, there is the same potential for discriminatory conduct in favor of affiliated services, and its competitive impacts in the short - form portion of the market exist today.»
In its most basic form, this type of sexual harassment involves an employer asking an employee or a job applicant for a sexual favor in return for employment or some job benefit.
She added the government would «not be in the business of picking winners or losers, or favoring one form of technology over another.»
On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.
According to the latest FlexJobs survey of over 5,500 professionals, full - time telecommuting continues to be the most popular form of work flexibility, favored by 81 % of respondents over other options like flexible scheduling, partial telecommuting, and freelancing.
The PBoC created the TSF measure in 2011, largely because Chinese bankers had been de-emphasizing renminbi - denominated bank loans, the main measure regulators had previously used to monitor credit expansion, in favor of other forms of credit that were not so carefully monitored.
My answers to these questions in the shortest possible form are, «no,» «no,» and «no»... It seems that the arguments against trying to deflate a bubble outweigh those in favor of it.
@Really - O «Yes, society should allow people to do whatever they want as long as they do not cause others to suffer AND no unprovoked force is involved (please not the AND... this is not to be confused with OR)» @Chad «so, then you are in favor of: — legalizing all forms of drugs (as long as they are not used when operating a vehicle, same as drinking and driving).
Presidents Bush and Obama favored comprehensive immigration reform, which would once again attempt to control the border and illegal entry and grant some form of amnesty to many of the undocumented.
Christians in this country need to totally abandon the two corrupt parties we have, because those who are seated in the seats of making decisions will NEVER abandon their practices, for their love of power and the love of BRIBE that comes abundantly to them from those who have means to give it, in order to receive favors in form of making our country's laws and policies to further allow them to do their self serving practice, disregarding those which they hurt by them.
One could have an abortion and happy they denied life to an innocent in favor of their own lifestyle, one could have a baby with the intent on sacrificing it to Satan in some way, shape, or form, it could go lots of different ways for lots of different reasons but contradicting itself is of absolutely no concern as a lot of Satanists also label themselves «nonreligious».
The form of this liturgical piece is clear: sin is acknowledged with frequent repetition for intensification of feeling; petition is made for divine favor; a vow to God is made; worshipers affirm what really matters between them and God.
Although Leibniz did, in a most modern way, conceive of space as inherently relational, as an «order of co-existence,» rather than as a self - subsistent «container,» his prejudice in favor of the subject - predicate form for propositions led him to interpret relational forms as ultimately reducible to predicational forms, and to assume that the latter had primary metaphysical significance.
His rejection of independently existing substance in favor of a universe in which all entities are related, the idea of actual entities as valuing subjects prehending and creating themselves Out of the feelings of other subjects, the declaration that the most basic form of order is aesthetic, and the insistence that the lure toward beauty and adventure is a primary drive in the process of reality, are all examples of Whitehead's fundamental insight that to be is to be related, to exhibit some degree of beauty in those relationships, and to have the power both to affect and to be affected.
Such a gift might spring from varied motives — gratitude, homage, or the desire to curry favor — but obviously in the background of the practice of animal sacrifice was the idea that God liked this form of gift and profited by it.
Places like the Grand Canyon also receive a much simpler explanation than the theory (which is rapidly losing favor) that the Grand Canyon was formed over millions of years by a small trickle of water.
The terrible dynamism of nature had to be both resisted and controlled by rites at once apotropaic — appeasing chaos and rationalizing it within the stability of cult — and economic — recuperating its sacrificial expenditures in the form of divine favor, a numinous power reinforcing the regime that sacrifice served.
Propaganda in favor of North Korea is a constant — usually in the form of catchy songs that remind them to remain obedient to the Kim family, to serve their country faithfully and to remember that they are the happiest people in the world.
Unless we are in effect to abandon all attempts to talk about God as such (a form of apophatic theology which Neville's position seems to favor), the «devious analogy» to which he refers is so devious that it is hard to distinguish it from equivocation or even fraudulent misrepresentation.
Indeed, it is You who is Knower of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»
It seems to me that the author is also hoping that the president, and others like him, can revitalize a form of progressive Christianity that has fallen out of favor with the rise of the right - wing, mega-churches.
Unfortunately most American protestants ignore the Gospels in favor of the prosperity teaching in the old books (it aligns with capitalism) Jesus's teachings align more closely with Socialism than any other form of modern government structure.
But an epistemology of the cross shares with feminist epistemologies the conviction that the place of the least favored — at the foot of the cross, in all its contemporary forms — is a better place to start knowing than any place of domination could be.
They are sincere about favoring one form of political and social organization over another, and for the sake of advancing their favored program they are prepared to see human rights sacrificed, or at least severely compromised.
Among cultural forms he clearly favored the visual arts, thus himself helping to foster another branch of the interdiscipline.
We can be absolutely certain that the Academy will not say, «The evidence on the whole supports the theory of evolution, although we concede that the apparent abrupt appearance of many fully formed animal groups in the Cambrian rocks is in itself a point in favor of the creationists.»
History reveals a direct connection between the image of the Church that may be predominant at any given time and the forms of communication which the Church favors during that same time.
The contrary argument, in favor of some form of drinking, takes one or more of the following three lines: the religious, the social, or the psychological.
Manifestly constructed as it is only for insertion between the Crucifixion and a modified form of the appearance to Peter in Galilee, it has led ultimately by gradual stages... to the well - nigh complete suppression of the Apostles» experiences in Galilee in favor of the women's in Jerusalem.»
It is true that in the majority of the Thirteen Colonies one form or another of Christianity enjoyed the peculiar favor of the colonial government.
Reason as a means of forming a judgment is included in religious doctrine because whatever reason favors, religion agrees to.
But there is a point at which strategy becomes its own form of idolatry — an attempt to manipulate the levers of history in favor of the causes we support.
Certainly, the «lusts of the flesh» of which you speak do include a form of religious superiority and haughtiness that do no favor to those looked down upon (believe it or not, it is not all about sex).
The change we favor would help the successful as much as anyone, giving them what is presently slipping beyond everyone's grasp, a form of life that is intrinsically meaningful and valuable.
The centers, they claim, engage in deceptive advertising by saying that they help women with problem pregnancies when, in fact, they do not offer the ACLU's favored form of help, namely, getting rid of the baby.
To see the argument in its pure form, though, it is necessary to look instead at Bentham's argument in favor of infanticide, or, as he calls it, «the power of breeding - up or not during early infancy.»
The doubts are widespread even among those who are professionally involved in ecumenism and are all in favor of its continuance, though in new forms.
However, a central difficulty in the relationship of the church with the arts is the church's tendency to ignore form in favor of content.
Although these formats favor either apolitical entertainment or moral uplift, they nonetheless offer instances of both the most extreme state propaganda and the most radical rejections of the establishment, especially through the unique form of black protest theater.
Biblically literate women looked to scripture to justify their changing situation, especially in the churches.25 Gabriele Dietrich emphasizes three points which are important in our context from the Jesus Movement26: firstly, the Jesus Movement was critical of the existing patriarchal family structure and created new forms of community; secondly, it was egalitarian in terms of class with a bias in favor of the poor; and, thirdly, it provided for a participation of women which was far reaching and unusual under the conditions of the time.27
It tends to give society the assurance that its form of organization and its customs are divinely ordained, that it enjoys the special protection and favor of God, that it is a chosen people.
While I am not in favor of same sex marriage, it is none of my business if the involved couples choose this form of intending life long commitment.
I do not favor tyranny of any form.
These polls show undeniably that the percentage of French people who favor homosexual marriage has increased steadily for ten years and that this group now forms a significant majority: 65 percent held this view in the most recent poll, in August 2012.
These polls show undeniably that the percentage of French people who favor homosexual marriage has increased steadily for ten years and that this group now forms a significant majority: 65 percent held this view in one recent poll, that of the IFOP for August 2012.
But the effect of overcoming the dualism of the psychical and the material by pronouncing entirely in favor of the psychical is different from overcoming the dualism of the mental and the physical by saying that both elements are present in every occasion as forms of feeling.
Imperfection implies the progressive fulfillment of ideal orders, but it also involves the corresponding destruction of lower forms in favor of higher ones.
The longing to withdraw from, escape, or transcend the vicissitudes of political life in favor of a more perfect world permeates Western culture from ancient times to our own, though the responses to it have taken many forms.
Whole natural almonds have been popular for chocolate coated almonds and chocolate bars; they also promote healthy positioning and premium appeal.2 Almond slivers are popular as toppings in or on chocolate bars and in fruit - nut clusters, and appeared to bolster the «indulgence» factor with consumers.2 «Indulgence» is also the dominant positioning platform at the core of all product launches in the chocolate confectionery category.2 Almond pieces have recently grown in popularity as the favored form in chocolate, surging from 25 % in 2014 to almost a third in 2016.1